[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 44, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 44CFR5.56]



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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE

 

 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

                                SECURITY

 

PART 5_PRODUCTION OR DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION--Table of Contents

 

                       Subpart D_Described Records

 

Sec. 5.56  Extension of time limits.



    In unusual circumstances as specified in this section, the time 

limits prescribed in Sec. Sec. 5.52 and 5.55 may be extended by an 

official named in Sec. 5.54(a) who will provide written notice to the 

requestor setting forth the reasons for such extension and the date on 

which a



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determination is expected. Such notice will specify no date that would 

result in an extension of more than ten work days. In unusual 

circumstances, the Headquarters FOIA Officer may authorize more than one 

extension, divided between the initial request stage and the appeals 

stage, but in no event will the combined periods of extension exceed ten 

work days. As used in this section, ``unusual circumstances'' include 

only those circumstances where extension of time is reasonably necessary 

to the proper processing of the particular request. Examples include:

    (a) The need to search for and collect the requested records from 

field facilities or other establishments that are separate from the 

office processing the request; or

    (b) The need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine a 

voluminous amount of separate and distinct records which are demanded in 

a single request; or

    (c) The need for consultation, which shall be conducted with all 

practicable speed, with another agency or with a non-Federal source 

having a substantial interest in the determination of the request or 

among two or more components of FEMA having substantial subject matter 

interest therein.